Bezos relies on your ignorance. The 40% statistic he refers to is just the Adjusted Gross Income (AGI). It conspicuously leaves out the vast “passive” fortune of ~$8 trillion held by the billionaire class in the U.S. that is not taxed. It’s misleading because billionaires don’t earn an income or a salary. That’s for goyim peasants. They use a strategy called “buy, borrow, die”. Trillions of dollars in capital gains, not taxed (because they lobbied the tax code to be that way). They call it “unrealized capital gains” although when they need to “realize” it, they leverage that wealth to borrow huge sums of money which cannot be taxed (because it’s technically a loan). And that’s how they live and cavort around the world in megayachts, etc. They all do this. Elon Musk did this to buy Twitter, for example. And that’s how they skirt paying taxes and pretend they’re pious because they “don’t take a cash salary”. They don’t play the same game as us. When you look at the big picture, the true tax rate Jeff Bezos pays on his vast fortune is less than one percentage point (.9%), less than the nurse in Queens he uses as a political prop to advance his agenda. propublica.org/article/the-s…